Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comrades of the War have found each other again in Berlin, in the days just before Hitler. None of them has prospered in post-War Germany. Otto owns a small garage, Robert (the "I" of the story) and Gottfried work as mechanics; all share and share alike. But repair jobs are few, and it is always a question how long they can keep going. Otto's prize possession is a rattletrap car they call Karl, which looks only fit for the junk-pile but is actually a tenderly groomed greyhound of the road. Besides drinking, their favorite sport...
Leaning from the second-story porch of his Cleveland home to repair a flower box. famed Baseball Outfielder Tris Speaker 'Cleveland Indians), 48, now a wholesale liquor dealer, plunged headfirst to the ground when the railing collapsed, fractured his arm, slashed his cheek, received serious internal injuries...
...Democratic National Committeewoman of the District of Columbia she was a member of the District's delegation to the Convention in Chicago. The delegation was for Roosevelt but she unfortunately held out for Newton D. Baker or Melvin Traylor. After Roosevelt's nomination she hastened to repair her mistake...
Narrowest escape from disaster was at anchor off the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, seawall when the Joseph Conrad was driven aground by a squall on New Year's Eve, smashed against a pier as the salvage tugs were moving her off. A $10,000 repair bill came near grounding the expedition then & there. "Ports," warns Author Villiers, "are bad places for ships and men." Luck was with them in the only other mishap of the voyage when they grounded on a coral reef in the South Seas...
...March 18, as usual, an advance guard of several hundred swallows winged in from the ocean, circled the Mission, flew back to sea. Happy at that yearly signal were the Mission brothers engaged in digging and watering a big mudhole from which the birds would draw material to repair their hard-baked, saucer-shaped nests. Next dawn a crowd gathered on the Mission grounds, all eyes peering out to sea. Sure enough, sharp at 5:56 a. m., 40 minutes after sunrise, a lowering cloud appeared on the horizon, grew bigger and bigger until it all but blotted...